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Lecythidaceae
Corythophora R. Knuth
Nomenclature
SUMMARY
Canopy trees. Leaves scattered along branches, medium to large-sized (4-34 cm long), glabrous; domatia absent; secondary venation reticulate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, spicate or once-branched paniculate arrangements of spikes, growth of rachises determinate. Flowers present with leaves, zygomorphic; sepals 6; petals 6; flat at apices; androecium forming hood, the hood flat, the fertile stamens in staminal ring, not reflexed, the fodder staminodes either in ring or hood, the anthers laterally dehiscent; staminal lip present; ovary 2-5-locular, ovules 4-6 per locule, attached on floor of locule or at base of septum (this needs to be confirmed), the style without stylar collar. Fruit dehiscent, remaining on tree at maturity, campanulate except for cylindric fruit of C. labriculata, pericarp relatively thick. Seeds not winged, numerous, usually fusiform, not embedded in pulp, the testa glabrous; cotyledons absent; embryo macropodial.